Family of four found dead in Pavlodar suburbs
A family of four has been found dead in a suburb of Pavlodar.
Australian charged with murder of young French woman
A young Australian man appeared in a Brisbane court on Wednesday charged with the rape and murder of 21-year-old French student Sophie Collombet, reports said.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen kill 79 in Nigeria
The death toll in an attack by Fulani herdsmen on a village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State rose to 79 from 30, a governor spokesman said.
Two female Western journalists shot in Afghanistan, one dead: police
A female Western journalist was shot dead and another wounded in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost on Friday, on the eve of the country's presidential election, police said.
Frenchwoman latest foreign student murdered in Brisbane
A Frenchwoman has become the fourth foreign student to be brutally murdered in the Australian city of Brisbane in almost as many months, police said Wednesday.
Flood victims give account of disaster in Karaganda Oblast
Kokpekty villagers talked about the homes they lost in the flood caused by a dam burst.
Astana may soon have its first crematorium
An entrepreneur from Astana Valikhan Sabilov is planning to build a private crematorium in the capital.
Six dead, one missing in S. Korea fishing boat fire
Six people died after jumping off a fishing boat that caught fire off a South Korean island on Monday, with efforts underway to rescue its missing captain, the coastguard said.
China hit by new flood of dead pigs in river
Chinese authorities have found 157 dead pigs in a river, state media said Wednesday, a year after 16,000 carcasses were discovered in Shanghai's main waterway, underscoring the country's food safety problems.
Australian police dig for 'multiple' baby graves at rural home
Police in Australia began digging up a rural property on Tuesday searching for what reports said were "multiple babies" in secret graves.
Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott found dead in New York
L'Wren Scott, American fashion designer to the stars and long-time girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, was found dead at her New York apartment.
Five babies a day left at Chinese city's 'baby hatch'
More than 260 unwanted children, most of them babies, have been abandoned in a Chinese "safe haven" in just over six weeks -- more than five a day -- since it opened in late January.
Deceased organ donation: integrated database for Kazakhstan
Creation of an electronic donor database is suggested as one of the major steps in developing deceased organ donation in Kazakhstan.
Sri Lanka family finds mass grave in garden
A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home, police said Saturday, the latest mass grave to be discovered in the country's former war zone.
17 bodies dumped in Mexico mass grave
Mexican authorities discovered at least 17 bodies dumped in an unmarked grave outside the western city of Guadalajara after arresting a suspected drug trafficker, a state prosecutor said Friday.
Police, protesters wage 'war' in deadly Kiev clashes
Riot police launched a fresh assault on protesters in central Kiev early Wednesday, escalating a bloody standoff that has already left at least 18 people dead in a dramatic turning point for Ukraine's three-month political crisis.
More bodies unearthed amid Mexico violence
More than a dozen bodies were unearthed in a troubled region of southwestern Mexico where the military also engaged in a deadly firefight that killed one person.
Woman lay dead in Sydney house for nearly eight years
An elderly lady lay dead in her inner city home for nearly eight years before her skeletal remains were found, an inquest heard Thursday, in a case dubbed "the woman Sydney forgot" by local media.
Search ends at Canada seniors home where fire killed 28
Canadian authorities on Monday called off a search for remains in the rubble of a Quebec retirement home ravaged by a fire that killed at least 28 people.
Fears death toll could rise in Indonesia volcano eruption
Indonesian officials searched through thick ash for bodies Sunday after Mount Sinabung volcano erupted, killing at least 15 people.